Which player did you want to be when you were growing up ?

[EFCPaul]

Aged 10 - 13 it was Nigel Martyn. Then after it was Cahill.

 

[Joey66]

Maradona.

I was about half a foot taller than him when I was about 8 though.

A cheat & a coke head

 

[chrismpw]

Modelled my game as a centre back on Ratcliffe. Same blistering pace, same ability to not be prolific scoring goals.

 

[Littlesue]

Just for @Littlesue

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Come to Mommy

 

[duncs pigeon]

Not sure how I can answer this but the player I wanted to marry as a 12 year old was Asa Hartford

A friend of mine, a big City fan, named one her children after him.

 

[Noble Savage]

Polish Bob.

 

[twoblue]

Beardsley, with his filmstar looks and his liberal mind

 

[Carlito]

Everton didn't really have the sort of players you wanted to emulate when I was a kid, so I'd probably have to pick Parma/Lazio Crespo.

 

[Northeastblue]

Trevor Steven.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Jimmy Greaves.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Big Nev *dunks fifth chocolate digestive into cuppa*

 

[dublinbluenose]

Maradona and Big Nev

 

[davek]

Mick Lyons.

 

[PKwalnuts]

Sharp
Cottee
Then in the summer of Nessun Dorma and Italia 90, it was Bebetto, Romario and Baggio
After that Cottee, Big Dunc, Kanchelskis then Gary Speed.
Then I was about 16 and got a knee injury....

 

[Stevie Nicks Bootleg]

A cheat

He obviously saw Degsy Mountfield in action a month earlier? ?